The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 128
Soon afterwards he saw something big coming towards him, darkening the sky.
Who acts: Irishman · What happens: see, come, darken · To what, where: something, sky
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 something | acl |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 coming | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 darkening | punct |
| 11 | darkening | darken | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 darkening | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Irishman | something | afterwards, soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | towards Irishman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | darken | gerund | Irishman not said here | the sky | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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